Nancy Astor Quotes
Nobody wants me as a Cabinet Minister and they are perfectly right. I am an agitator, not an administrator.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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Lots of male friendships begin as a cheeky snog. Or a little undercurrent of flirtation.
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I don't believe there should be any restrictions when it comes to firearms. None.
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To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'
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My confidence comes from my fights and my training.
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If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information.
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I like boring golf. That's kind of what butters my bread.
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People will always want a free lunch.
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For a long time, I'd work until 10 or 11. When I work, I'm on. I'm 'Magic.' I love it, but it takes a lot out of me.
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It's hard to keep things moving. And that's always a big trick. I think for me, the key is setting really big goals. And, you know, with YouTube, I think we've had tremendous leadership, both with the founders and now with Salar, who's been running it.
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When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run,
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'All the same,' said the Scarecrow, 'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.' 'I shall take the heart,' returned the Tin Woodman; 'for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.'
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The sight of Oakland sprawling on the horizon gave Emily’s spirits an additional boost. Oakland was by no means lovely, but it meant they were almost to San Francisco.
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I was born a Hindu because I had no control over this, but I shall not die a Hindu.
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I don't think this show would have come to me 10 years ago. It continues to be this wonderful miracle.
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On Vince Cable: But he's charming and northern; he's the man tasked with crushing the poor in their own accent, isn't he really?
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I wouldn't care if he lost both his legs and was in a wheelchair. But it he's having a hard time...Then I won't see him.
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History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly belong to all of us. We must not let it happen again.
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Society determines how long and in what manner the individual organism shall live. This determination may be institutionally programmed in the operation of social controls, as in the institution of law. Society can maim and kill. Indeed, it is in its power over life and death that it manifests its ultimate control over the individual.
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Nobody wants me as a Cabinet Minister and they are perfectly right. I am an agitator, not an administrator.
